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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
4
A collage of patriotic quotes, civic exhortations, and social commentary urges residents to reclaim pride in the town. It celebrates national symbols and calls citizens to clean, repair, and beautify their streets while warning against neglect and complacency. A melancholic Lost-A-Boy reflection attributes the loss to parental distraction and missed responsibility.
A passionate plea on the home as life’s cornerstone urging young people to value home life and maternal sacrifice. It recalls a missing boy in a church pew and honors a mother who toiled daily from dawn to night to support her family, urging repayment of her debt in love.
Billy Sunday spoke in New York drawing applause as he prayed for unity beyond race and creed. He praised judge Rosalsky for jail sentences over anti enlistment literature and urged all Americans to defend the flag. The Jamestown High School commencement was held last week.
Mortgagee sale by Southern Live Stock Insurance Company and assignee T F Wrenn. Real estate in High Point North Carolina to be sold at public auction on June 4 1917 at 12 o'clock noon. Property includes 70 1/2 acres more or less with various bounds and references to adjacent lands and railroad lines. Proceeds to satisfy mortgage debt with specified exceptions and prior conveyances.
Long legal description of land parcels including various corners, measurements, rights of way, and reservations tied to Dougan Davis and other grantors. Mentions dammed land, railroad rights, and specific book and page references. Declares sale of farm acreage as a whole or split, with dwelling lot sold separately, on May 1, 1917. Mortgagee Southern Live Stock Insurance Company. Assignor T. F. Wrenn.
Mrs. Ana Becker reports nervous breakdown and headaches. After trying Vinci tonic, she notes improvement within two weeks and feels well again. Ad promotes Vinci as a non secret tonic to strengthen weak, run down people. Matton Drug Co. High Point North Carolina endorses sale.
Picture shown of a 42 piece Bluebird China set offered for a few days at 498 dollars. Compared to other sellers asking 12 dollars and up per item. See notice elsewhere for more details.
Miss Berhta Nichols of this city was called to Rockford Sunday afternoon after the drowning death of her brother Ed gar and three others when a boat sprang a leak on the French Broad river near Asheville.
The article summarizes U S Court decisions on newspaper taking. It states that subscribers are presumed to renew unless they notify otherwise. A publisher may continue sending until dues are paid after a discontinuance order. If a subscriber fails to take the paper from the post office he remains responsible until settled and discontinued. Moving without informing the publisher may render the subscriber responsible for the undelivered issues.
James York, a colored man who killed Fred Turner near the city last fall and fled to Pittsburg where he was captured, was tried in Guilford County court last week and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
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